It is this particular artist's table that provides the best evidence so far revealed for attributing a small group of slightly differing examples to John Mayhew and William Ince. They illustrated two related tables in their Universal System of Household Furniture 1759 - 63, pl. XXIV. The 3rd Earl of Kerry has been identified as one of the most significant clients and patrons of the firm and it is the combination of this relationship and the design in the Universal System that makes the attribution so confident. While the table's rim is carved with gadrooned beads in the 'antique' manner, the legs' banded cluster-columns display contemporary interest in rendering gothic forms in the same classical manner as that shown in the architect Batty Langley's Gothic Architecture Improv'd by Rules and Proportions, London, 1742, pl. LXVIII. Langley's work influenced some chimneypiece patterns published by W. Paine, whose Builder's Companion, 1758, p. 61, also illustrated this table's fret-pattern with double entwined-ribbon trellis. English pattern tables of this type, with enclosed quadrant-ratchet supports, also appear in designs executed in 1784 by the Portugese architect Jose Francisco de Paiva (d. 1824) (see: M. Pinto, Jose Francisco de Paiva, Lisbon, 1973, no. 31). A closely related table, without a concave-centred front or a gadrooned edge, is in the Noel Terry Collection at Fairfax House, York (see: P. Brown, The Noel Terry Collection of Furniture and Clocks, York 1987, p. 103, no. 102). A third example is lot 142 in this sale.

The firm clearly acted for Lord Kerry in the other services that were offered by great cabinet-making firms in the 18th century. When James Christie dispersed the contents of South-Hill, near Bagshot, Surrey, on 16 - 21 August 1769, it was William Ince who took delivery of #724 18s 6d on behalf of Lord Kerry (receipt bound with the catalogue in Christie's Muniment Room).